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The Bureau Newspaper stories that eight Salernitana gamers had been rushed to hospital because of extreme meals poisoning.
The incident occurred simply hours after they had been overwhelmed 2-0 by Sampdoria on Sunday within the first leg of a play-off to keep away from relegation to the Italian third tier.
Salernitana stars had been on a chartered flight dwelling from Genoa when a number of folks fell unwell.
Gazzetta dello Sport declare many began to really feel sick after consuming a meal on board that had been ready on the staff’s lodge.
In complete, 21 members of employees, together with eight gamers, had been stated to be struggling with “gastrointestinal issues” and had been in “excruciating ache”.
Upon their touchdown again dwelling at Salerno-Costa d’Amalfi Airport, FOUR AMBULANCES had been referred to as to deal with the staff and a few had been rushed to hospital.
The bulk had been discharged a number of hours later but some stay with medical doctors. Coaching at this time has been cancelled as many nonetheless really feel unwell.
Salernitana have requested for the second leg of their tie in opposition to Sampdoria on Friday evening be postponed.
Membership chief Maurizio Milan stated in a press release: “We’re sincerely shocked by what occurred and by the sequence of occasions that threat undermining Salernitana’s common and peaceable strategy to the ultimate and basic minutes of the season.
“We have now already interfaced informally with the Lega Serie B, receiving a basic openness to judge our requests.
“Many gamers and employees, in the intervening time, usually are not even capable of present up on the sports activities centre to renew coaching.
“We belief within the availability of the related our bodies in order that this severe scenario could be taken under consideration and, on the identical time, confirm the causes of this widespread and severe episode.”
Police in Genoa have attended the lodge the place the staff was staying to begin their investigation.
Salernitana and Sampdoria completed sixteenth and seventeenth in Serie B – Italy’s equal of the Championship.
The Italian relegation system sees the underside three sides mechanically relegated to the third tier, however the sides sixteenth and seventeenth enjoying a two-legged tie to find out which aspect additionally drops down a division.
Spurs woes
The Salernitana incident will convey again dangerous reminiscences for Tottenham followers whose gamers had been struck down by meals poisoning forward of an important sport.
Needing solely to match Arsenal’s consequence on the ultimate day of the 2005/06 season to safe Champions League soccer, plenty of gamers fell unwell because of a dodgy lasagne.
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